Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poland to both the Baltic and Black Seas. He smashed the Russian Tsar's armies. conquered Danzig and regained a part of the East Baltic coast, died before he could reach the Black Sea. For a little while then Poland was the No. 1 power between western and eastern Europe...
Huge advertisements in all major Eastern railroad stations this week lured the public with announcements of drastic cuts in fares. None of the posters made mention of the fact that 23 major Eastern railroads were last week settling down to a grim court fight against the Interstate Commerce Commission's order which made the new fares necessary. All 23 meticulously obeyed the order but declared they would reinstate the old fares if the courts would permit. Of all Eastern roads, only the Baltimore & Ohio complied voluntarily, announced the cuts were permanent...
...action that clinched the nomination for Landon, this politician felt, was the announcement earlier in the week that J. Henry Roraback's uninstructed Connecticut delegation would vote for the "Kansas Coolidge" on the first ballot. This was the first break in the solid ranks of the free Eastern delegations, and what "Stop Landon" movement there was collapsed, in the opinion of the annonymous Bay State Republican...
...Eastern Intercollegiate Outboard Association, which sponsors the annual national championship, holds only one event annually. This regatta is different from any other in that team competition has been injected, affording added interest. Individual and team championship trophics are awarded on the basis of the number of points scored in the four classes of outboard racing motors---A, B, C and F. First place counts 400 points, second place 300, third...
...times. . . ." Prepared to slog through the usual corporate platitudes, Container stockholders opened their eyes wide at what followed: "We recognize that while matters of considerable importance will be submitted at the Annual Stockholders' Meeting in Chicago it may be difficult or impossible for many of our Eastern stockholders to attend this meeting because of distances involved. Therefore, I cordially invite you, or your duly accredited representative, to meet with me ... on Tuesday, May 26th, at the New York offices of the Company. . . . Please understand that this will be a wholly informal meeting- simply for the purpose of acquainting...